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They cooked us eggs & feasted us splendidly. Many of them had been working with our chaps on shore taking off the wounded & they could not do enough for us. At night we had church service by Dean Talbot, rather a good sermon for him.
Monday 31st. Had a route march to a country village about 5 miles distant. On arrival we saw the usual scurrying females & pulled up at a café for a drink & were supplied with German Beer no less. Then three of us went round to the school & the Headmaster called them out to form up for me to take a photograph. Then I snapped them scrambling for backsheesh. The youngsters were highly pleased & when we first showed ourselves called out Australia & pointed to the map. Comparing them size for size they seem to be more forward then our youngsters. We carried on some kind of a conversation with the teacher by means of a mixture of Greek English & French & on him giving me his address promised to send him a photograph. About 9AM a German aeroplane flew across & dropped two bombs on the French camp killing & wounding a dozen. Luckily they missed our camp. We could first hear him & then see him soaring up at a great height. We also heard it rumoured that the "Goeben" was sunk.
Tuesday 1st June. Reveille 5.30AM as we had orders to quit. We packed up camp & had to carry the major part of our equipment to the wharf as the mule cart's